Summary
Organization name
Daring Girls (formerly AfricAid, Inc.)
2000
Tax id (EIN)
84-1549841
Category
Education
Organization Size
Medium Organization
Address
1031 33rd StreetDenver, CO 80205
Denver County, CO, US
TZ
Daring Girls (formerly AfricAid) partners locally to ensure that girls have the knowledge, tools, mentorshp and support to confidently design their own futures.
Testimonials
"Kisa made me. Kisa taught me how to learn in university and how to continue to learn in daily life. My Kisa Mentors built an entrepreneurial spirit in me that anything is possible. Through lessons like the Mandela leadership principles, I learned that being a leader means letting people feel their opinion matters. This directly relates to my business and my interaction with my customers. I make them feel important and involved. I listen very intently as I want to give them what they really wish to get.
I have a calling to inspire other young girls to do more, to go beyond, to try anything - anything - to learn new skills. I want to tell girls what I learned in Kisa and what I am learning in life. I want them to know the sky is the limit so they can do something great with their lives."
- Ruth Shayo, 2017 Kisa alumna and owner of Lohi's Cakes.
Mission
Daring Girls partners locally to ensure that girls have the knowledge, tools, mentorship and support to confidently design their own futures.
In partnership with our Tanzania-based sister organization, GLAMI (Girls Livelihood and Mentorship Initiative), we equip girls to overcome challenges and reach their full potential because educated girls create lasting positive change. The outcome is resilient, proactive, and socially-responsible girls who secure better jobs, raise healthier children, and increase the standing of women in society.
Daring Girls supports the implementation of two core extracurricular mentoring programs:
Kisa Project is a two-year leadership course that prepares girls in their last two years of secondary school to attend university and create positive social change in their communities.
Binti Shupavu is a four-year life skills course for lower secondary school girls covering topics such as study skills, personal leadership, health, and self-confidence with the goal of increasing graduation rates for vulnerable girls.
In 2022, GLAMI received the UNESCO Prize for Girls' and Women's Education, recognizing the critical role of Kisa Project and Binti Shupavu in helping girls complete their education.
In 2023, Daring Girls and GLAMI launched a pilot of the Binti Shupavu program in Kenya through our newest partner, CWE-TECH (Centre for Women Empowerment in Technology), marking the first time our curriculum would be localized and used with girls in a new context, in a new location.
Background Statement
Daring Girls (formerly AfricAid) is rooted in the experiences of our founder, Ashley Shuyler, who traveled to Tanzania for the first time with her family in 1996 at the age of eleven. Struck by the poverty she saw while there, particularly among children her own age, she became determined to do something to help. She soon learned that, in contrast to her own educational experiences in the United States, only a small fraction of girls in Tanzania are able to obtain an education beyond the primary school level. Because of her strong belief that education is the most crucial component of any long-term solution to the many challenges facing East Africa, particularly in the areas of health and inequality, she formed Daring Girls as AfricAid at the age of sixteen. Since its inception in 2001, Daring Girls has raised several million dollars to help transform the educational landscape for girls in Tanzania. In 2022, the mentoring programs developed over the years with our Tanzanian sister organization, GLAMI (formerly AfricAid Tanzania), were recognized with the prestigious UNESCO Prize for Girls' and Women's Education. In 2023, Daring Girls and GLAMI partnered with CWE-TECH (Centre for Women Empowerment in Technology) to pilot our Binti Shupavu curriculum, working together to localize the program for girls in Murang'a County, Kenya.
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Denver, CO 80205